Beverley Athletic Club say they are excited to announce the news that Olympic gold and bronze medal-winning rower Phelan Hill MBE will be competing in the 25th running of the Pittaway Beverley 10k road race, on Sunday 13 May 2018.
As cox, Phelan steered the Mens Eight to bronze at the London 2012 Olympics and onto gold in Rio 2016. He has also coxed the Mens Eights to three successive rowing World Championship golds.
Members of the Beverley Building Society have named HER Breast Friend as their charity of the month for March.
Members of the Beverley Building Society voted for HER Breast Friend, a charity that support cancer sufferers, to win the £250 prize money.
Kingston Panthers coach Jo Richardson has described her club as ‘what dreams are made of’ following their most recent round of fixtures.
Kingston Netball Club currently hold their training sessions at South Hunsley School, Melton but games are played all around the Hull and East Riding area including Beverley at Longcroft School.
Captain’s of Beverley Town Cricket Club have expressed their thanks to the businesses and individuals who have sponsored the club for the forthcoming season.
Beverley Town CC, who play at the Norwood Recreation Ground provide cricket in the local area for all ages including free softball sessions every Monday.
Humberside Police are appealing for help to locate a driver who they say drove his car at another person in the East Yorkshire village.
In a statement released, police say they would like to contact the driver of the silver car following the incident that took place earlier in the week.
A major road improvement scheme for the Beverley area costing £995,000 will get underway next month.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s project will see the resurfacing of a number of town centre roads in Beverley, plus one in Leconfield, which are all currently showing signs of wear.
A man from Hull has been ordered to pay a total of £617 after rubbish he was paid to dispose of ended up being dumped in Beverley.
A large builder’s bag full of household waste and a plastic children’s paddling pool were found fly-tipped by the roadside in Shepherd’s Lane, Beverley, in January 2017.
The Deer Shed Festival has announced it will offer full weekend adult tickets to its ninth edition at a heavily discounted price of £50 (plus booking fee) for holders of adult full weekend tickets to the cancelled Beverley Folk Festival.
The 2018 Deer Shed line-up may not be designed solely for folk purists, but fantastic folk-influenced acts include: This Is The Kit, Scott Matthews, Rozi Plain, Pictish Trail, Siv Jakobsen, Bryde, The Lost Brothers, Seamus Fogarty, Night Flight, Holy Moly & The Crackers, Morrissey & Marshall, Riley Pearce, Bella Gaffney & Polly Bolton and more.
Local MP Graham Stuart has welcomed confirmation by the Northern Powerhouse Minister, Jake Berry, that the problematic Jock’s Lodge road junction to the south of Beverley needs improvement.
Graham had written to Mr Berry in support of a £50m funding bid to the Department for Transport by East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
Beverley ARLC will face their biggest test of the season as they host their early title rivals Clock Face Miners in the National Conference League on Saturday.
Beverley, who top the table on points difference, following their blistering start to the season, will be looking to get the edge in game which will see the winner go clear at summit of the table.
Beverley Town Football Club returned to Hutton Cranswick for the last game of their Humber Premier League season, looking to finish on a high and take their run of unbeaten games to 8.
Conditions were wet, but the pitch was in good condition and both teams looked to get the ball down and play.
North Yorkshire trainer Bryan Smart expects a strong display from Alfa McGuire when the talented colt attempts to preserve his unbeaten record at Beverley on Thursday (April 26).
The son of Lord Shanakill won twice at the East Yorkshire circuit as a juvenile and makes his seasonal reappearance in the £12,000 Alan McGuiness And Robin Lunness Memorial Handicap (2.35pm).
The sky over Sewerby Fields, in Bridlington, is set to be awash with colourful kites as part of a two-day festival, hosted East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Active Coast programme and the Northern Kite Group and sponsored by St Stephen’s Shopping Centre (Hull).
The event will take place on Saturday, 19 and Sunday, 20 May and will see displays from a number of internationally-renowned experts as well as traditional fairground rides and a food village, with plenty of local produce on offer to create the perfect picnic.
The council’s Sport, Play and Arts Service, in partnership with the local England Netball Development Officer Pauline Hardy, recently celebrated the third anniversary of Walking Netball starting in the East Riding of Yorkshire with a tournament at East Riding Leisure Beverley.
Teams which are based in the East Riding leisure centres of Beverley, Haltemprice, Withernsea, Driffield and Bridlington attended the competition.
Members of staff at St Mary’s Primary School have raised over £2,000 for Cancer Research UK after they took part in the March incentive ‘Walk All Over Cancer’.
In all twenty staff members, made up of teachers, teaching assistants, lunchtime supervisors and office staff participated under the team name ‘We’ll Never Walk Alone’.
Photos from Rachel Kynman’s 50th birthday that was held at Beaver Park, the home of Beverley RUFC.
Rachel was joined by friends and family for a night of fancy dress that had a theme based around the hit TV show Peaky Blinders.
The East Riding will welcome some of the world’s top cyclists, including Olympic silver medallist and UCI Road World Championship winner Mark Cavendish, on Thursday, 3 May when Beverley hosts the start of both the men’s and women’s Tour de Yorkshire.
Thousands of spectators are expected to line the race route in the East Riding as the peloton races through the area, taking in a number of towns and villages including Tour de Yorkshire debutants Howden and Hornsea.
HU17.net Magazine Issue 395 is out and available to purchase from Molescroft News on Woodhall Way.
This week’s issues features a selection of content including the St John’s Primary School’s day with Humberside Fire & Rescue, St Mary’s School Walking Bus, Rachel Kynman’s 50th , the weekend’s sporting action and much more.